TAX CONSULTANCY & ADVISORY

Business Tax Planner

Stay compliant and up-to-date with Tax Regulations

Our tax consultancy services span from tax preparation and filing to tax cases mediation. Our tax preparation and filing services cover VAT, MRI, TOT, PAYE, Excise Duty etc.

The tax landscape is constantly changing, new tax amendments are implemented almost yearly.

Businesses have to update and adapt in alignment, re-evaluating the resulting tax implications caused by these amendments on transactions and general business activities.

Almost every year, a Finance Act assents constituting new taxes, or new tax rates, and even tax procedures amendments. Businesses have an obligation to update their tax reporting to reflect any such changes and ensure they are tax-compliant at all times.

The basic approach to mitigating tax risk is to exhaustively assess the tax implications of any business transaction before undertaking the transaction in question.  

How we help;

  • We help businesses interpret tax laws and regulations and collaboratively produce a guide to enhance their tax compliance.
  • We provide tax advisory services to help businesses undertake transactions with complete adherence to applicable tax laws.
  • We provide tax preparation services helping business determine their tax liability, file and pay taxes, and settle any tax disputes with KRA.

Our Tax Services

Tax Advisory

Tax Training

As a business owner, what does paying yourself from the business proceeds look like?

  • The relationship between you and your business.
  • Separation of self from business.
  • Monthly salary, dividends, periodic drawings, or all combined? Implication?
  • Reinvesting your personal earnings.

Tax Consultancy

ToT

Turnover Tax

Withholding VAT

Withholding Tax

Advance Tax

PAYE

Pay As You Earn

Corporate Taxes

VAT

Value Added Tax 

MRI

Rental Income Tax

DST

Digital Service Tax

VAT (DMS)

VAT on Digital Market Supply.

Excise Duty

Other Statutory deductions on employment income

Tax Advisory Services

Navigating the constantly changing tax legislation.

  • Businesses risk getting in trouble with the tax authorities if they don’t adapt their tax strategy to reflect changes in the legislation.
  • As a business, you must stay informed about the nearly annual revisions to Kenyan tax laws to ensure you report all appropriate taxes at the correct time and rate.
  • We want you to know that we take it as our duty to make sure you are informed about and aware of all relevant taxes.

Developing  a Tax Strategy.

Establishing a suitable tax model that articulates as accurately as possible  factors that most affect your company’s  tax outcomes.

Adopting a tax policy that provides confidence that your tax team has reasonably considered your company’s tax risk appetite, and has set-up ways to mitigate expected tax uncertainty. 

Better compliance

A thorough understanding of tax regulations is necessary before developing an efficient tax strategy. This implies that you will learn about all applicable tax regulations, leading to improved compliance.

Lower tax liability

Gaining a deeper comprehension of the relevant tax regulations will undoubtedly help with insights on possible tax credits, incentives, and allowable expenses, which will ultimately lower the total amount of tax payable.

Financial success

With an active tax strategy in place, you are able to more precisely project your tax liability in terms of the amount you will have to pay, and the appropriate course of action is to incorporating a tax payment plan. It makes it possible to estimate income, earnings, and expenses and enables you to manage your company’s financial decisions such as where to reinvest, where to make cost reductions, what expenses to pay for now or later, and where to diversify.

What you are targeting to achieve.

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Jackie.W. Murage

Associate- Corporate Services

As an Associate-Corporate Services, Jackline leads client relations, helping organizations develop strong corporate strategies. She brings relevant experience in the role of helping clients develop and implement corporate goals and objectives, formulate corporate strategies around their capital resources, achieve optimal strategic mix, and sustain a healthy risks-return balance.

Jackline holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management; Finance and Banking from Maasai Mara University

Diana Kiarie

Manager- Accounts and Financial Reporting

Diana serves as the Manager of Accounts and Financial Reporting and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce with a specialization in Accounting from Mount Kenya University. Additionally, she possesses a diploma in Business Management from the University of Nairobi. Currently pursuing CPA
Advanced Level, Diana has over five years of experience in finance, accounting, audit, and taxation for the firm, significantly enhancing strategic financial management activities.

CPA Gitau Nahashon

Senior Managing Partner

CPA Gitau Nahashon is an accomplished finance and accounting professional with over 21 years of experience in the fields of accounting, tax, audit, advisory, corporate governance, and business consultancy. Nahashon is the founding partner of GK Nahashon & Company, a rapidly growing medium-sized audit firm located in Rosslyn, Limuru Road.

He is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK), Kenya Institute of Management (KIM), and the Institute of Internal Auditors Kenya Chapter (IIA). CPA Nahashon is a passionate accountant, financial analyst, tax litigant, and advisor as well as corporate finance advisor. All this emerges from his background of Bachelor of Commerce, Finance, and Accounting as well as his professional training as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K) coupled with his many years of hands-on experience. He is a licensed practicing auditor and consultant with the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya. He is an MS Excel enthusiast having trained several high-ranking finance professionals in financial modeling, forecasting, and reporting using sophisticated Excel functions and formulae.

CPA Nahashon is a certified QuickBooks pro advisor, a position he uses to offer support in QuickBooks online as well as advise clients on the usage of QuickBooks for their accounting, payroll, and inventory management. This certification increases the confidence that clients have in our expertise in automated accounting software.

CPA Nahashon is extremely zealous of compliance, he has worked for several employers and private clients shepherding them to remain compliant with the regulations, policies, and guidelines of various regulators. As a risk and compliance professional, CPA Nahashon has brokered many deals and structured compliance highways for many organizations.

CPA Nahashon has enjoyed a thriving career in the private sector where he served in various capacities within the manufacturing, real estate, educational, and banking sectors. His major accomplishments include overseeing effective system migration, automation of MIS, conducting gap analysis for new CBK guidelines, successful acquisition structure, corporate governance training, financial reporting, training advanced MS Excel, successful audit engagements, setting up a successful microfinance company, several successful funding proposals among others.

This professional accountant has held the hands of many start-ups until they are mature with huge turnovers. He has mid-wifed micro enterprises to become medium-sized entities some of them with balance sheet of over Kshs 1B. He has successfully transitioned chamas to birthing enterprises that are current industry and market leaders.

He has served in various boards of academies, schools, SME’s and serves in advisory board of a thriving business in the service industry. He is currently a board chairman in one of the SME’s he serves as an independent director. He is an astute leader with impeccable people leadership skills and serves the community in several leadership positions transforming lives and offering hope to the destitute.